Hy Adam,

In real live it looks like this if everything is "good":

<<<md>>> Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 59559808 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 1950656 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

Criterions for Yellow Alarm (my opinion): One or more "U" is replaced with "_" or "recovery" is found

Criterion for Red Alarm (my opinion): Device is marked as inactive and has "_"s

Look at: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Mdstat

Thanks Richard

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:26:07 +0100 From: "Adam Armstrong" adama@memetic.org To: "" observium@observium.org Subject: Re: [Observium] "Monitoring" Linux Softraid State? Message-ID: ea384ce9-cb37-4664-83e1-95356caeab5e@getmailbird.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Is all of the required information returned in the md section?

It'd probably just take a bit of code to parse the output and inject the required entries into the status system.

adam. On 23/08/2015 10:31:37, Richard M?ller rm@teamix.de wrote: Hy *, ? I just noticed that observium_agent returns a <<<md>>> section: ? 1.)??? Question: is there actual a way of monitoring the state of linux softraid devices in Observium, I just do not know? Documentation / google is quite silent about this question. :-)

2.)??? If no, how can this be implemented? Idea #1: Introduce a ?(red|yellow) Alarm? state even for Unix devices, as most common network devices have. So this technique can be also used for different kinds of alarms (Raid, Network, ECC, ?) a.?????? Yellow Alarm: Raid degraded b.????? Red Alarm: Raid broken :-) ? Idea #2: Is this something, which can be implemented ?outside Observium? (e.g. by some ?geniuos? snmpd-configuration lines in snmpd.conf) and Observium just uses the normal ?(yellow|red) Alarm? way, which is already implemented? Sorry, I am not an SNMP-Expert, so I cannot answer this for myself. ? Thanks Richard --